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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dance Routine?, 7 April 2001
By A Customer
To celebrate the opening of their New York office, Warp Records releases Routine, a compilation of work from some of its roster. This is another important step for Warp, following the tenth anninversary in 1999, and the move down from Sheffield to London last year. The presence of Warp Records on the North American continent means that all releases should now be widely available over there. With inputs from Plaid, Autechre, Squarepusher, or Boards Of Canada, Routine explores the last couple of years of the label's history. With the exception of Autechre's Konlied MK, this compilation doesn't include any previously unreleased tracks. However, this is as good an entry point as were the monumental Warp 10 series. Kicking off with the hard-to-find, twelve-inch only Plaid track Booc, Routine also include Nuno, taken from the forthcoming Prefuse73 album Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives, as well as the brilliant Square Rave, taken from Squarepusher's Selection Sixteen album, Mira Calix's Sparrow, featured on her 2000 One On One album, Autechre's Cipater, from Chiastic Slide, Nightmares On Wax's classic chill out Les Nuits, from Carboot Soul, or the disturbing, yet highly amusing Porn, taken from Chris Morris's Radio 1 compilation Blue Jam. Routine also includes two Polygon Window tracks from the recently re-released Surfing On Sine Waves. If Routine obliterates the old classics from the label (LFO's LFO, Nightmares On Wax's Aftermath, Tricky Disco's Tricky Disco...), the fifteen tracks making the album offer an insight on the current direction(s) of the label, i.e. melodic or complex electronica, abstract hip-hop and deconstructed pop. Encompassing the best of what Warp Records is all about, Routine is an essential addition to any record collection, either as an introduction to Warp, or as a complement to Warp 10 series.
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~ Various Artists
~ Mu-Ziq
~ Stars of the Lid
~ Aphex Twin
~ Polygon Window
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